5 tips for reopening the office safely

Post-COVID-19, the office is going to look a lot different than it did at the start of 2020. Water-coolers are out and strict scheduling is in as firms try to keep the number of people in the office to a minimum, hand out personal protective...

Is Working Remotely the Future of Finance?

In mid-March, retail cosmetics shop Ulta Beauty closed all 1,254 stores and CFO Scott Settersten and his 200-person finance team, like much of the country, became remote workers overnight. Settersten characterizes it as “a firestorm erupted, and...

Reconceiving Innovation for Covid-19

For certain firms, Covid-19 has infused new meaning into the old cliché that a crisis is just an opportunity in disguise. Before the pandemic, digital companies such as Amazon and Zoom were competing not only with incumbents but also with...

How Your Firm Should be Planning for Internal Succession

Most firms are unprepared when it comes to this matter. According to one survey, 50 percent of accounting firms have no succession plan whatsoever, while another 30 percent don't have a detailed one. Thankfully, these ill-prepared firms have...

New Research: Compensation Trends Amid COVID-19

Employers have a growing list of concerns lately, including losing their top performers, new research from global staffing firm Robert Half shows. A large majority of senior managers surveyed (88%) said they are worried about their company's...

Middle market shaken, but not broken, by COVID-19

on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on LinkedIn  Share via Email Each quarter, KeyBank surveys 400 middle market business executives (defined as those companies within the $10 million to $2 billion range) to understand...

Accounting Professionals are Advising Whether They Realize it or Not

In light of the challenges accountants have experienced due to COVID-19, it seems everyone is looking to get in on advisory services. Some practitioners, however, just don't realize advisory is what they're actually doing. Consultants and...

Generations Y and Z: What do they want?

During 2019, FM set out to talk with Gen Y (Millennial) and Gen Z management accountants about their goals, work preferences, and priorities and to get a sense of how employers could best retain and develop workers in those generational cohorts....

Creating the firm of the future, today, amid COVID

The economic shock of the COVID-19 crisis has been greater than any previous crisis. Industry sectors have been forced to change. Some will never be the same. These impacts are being felt at home and in our businesses. As accounting practice...

More Guidance Needed for the New Payroll Tax Deferral Scheme

Like many other controversial issues in our nation’s capital, the outcome is far from clear, while the benefits are being debated along political lines. Under the executive order, employees would not be required to pay their share of the 6.2...

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